Global Coalition Advances “Healthspan for All”
San Francisco, CA and West Palm Beach, FL—January 21, 2026—Healthspan Action Coalition (HSAC) announced today it has achieved a major milestone by uniting 300 cross-sector organizations as the world’s largest alliance of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations exclusively focused on advancing healthspan for all. By leveraging advances in geroscience and regenerative medicine through innovative policymaking at all levels of government, workforce development, and patient advocacy, HSAC seeks to extend the healthy years of life across all populations.
“Reaching 300 organizations shows healthspan has grown beyond a niche cause, becoming a unifying societal movement,” said Bernard Siegel, co-founder of HSAC. “We are building the big-tent coalition needed to make healthy longevity a universal reality, not a privilege for the few. If societies are to meet the demands of global aging and thereby alleviate vast human suffering, healthspan must be recognized as a fundamental human right.”
A marketplace for ideas and collaboration
HSAC serves as a marketplace for ideas, projects, and partnerships at the intersection of aging biology, healthcare transformation, and social impact, spanning local pilot projects to national and international policy initiatives. By convening diverse stakeholders around a common healthspan agenda, the coalition aims to shorten the distance between promising concepts and real-world solutions.
To achieve this mission, HSAC has assembled a series of advisory boards composed of leading experts in law, policy, ethics, science, medicine, data science and machine intelligence, patient advocacy, caregiving, media, industry, finance, space, robotics, environmental science, athletics, lifestyle, and culture. These boards provide strategic insight and novel solutions, moving healthspan to the center of public, scientific, and commercial discourse.
HSAC has engaged in raising public awareness through customized media platforms. These include the Healthspan Compass, a newsletter written by award-winning science author Eve Herold. Through her skillful authorship, the Healthspan Compass translates complex scientific and policy issues for a broad professional and lay audience. “HSAC develops and promotes a wide range of podcasts, conferences, and social media posts to amplify our messaging,” Herold noted.
HSAC co-founder Melissa King explained that “HSAC is a connective hub linking historically siloed communities, including academic and translational research centers, health systems and clinics, biotech and medtech companies, longevity hubs and innovation districts, patient organizations, investors and philanthropies, and workforce and education partners. By connecting these dots, HSAC catalyzes collaborations that individual organizations would struggle to build on their own.”
Concrete collaboration examples
HSAC’s cross-sector structure is being transformed into tangible initiatives, including:
- Participating in alliances with patient advocacy organizations to amplify patient narratives, assure that healthspan interventions reflect real-world needs, and harness public support for geroscience and regenerative medicine.
- Connecting stakeholders in emerging Healthspan Corridors, Longevity Hubs, and Innovation Districts, helping align local governments, universities, hospitals, startups, and investors around shared healthspan and economic development goals.
- Advising regional initiatives such as the new Hawaii Healthspan Corridor, providing a bridge to national and international partners, best practices, and policy expertise.
- Working with prestigious think tanks and policy experts to advance innovative policy frameworks on topics such as gerotherapeutic regulation, clinical endpoints for aging biology, healthspan-aligned reimbursement, and workforce incentives.
From aging biology to systems change
“From diabetes to frailty and organ failure, aging biology is the common thread,” said Dr. Camillo Ricordi, co-chair of HSAC’s Scientific Advisory Board. “By bringing clinicians, scientists, and patient advocates into one coordinated network, HSAC creates the ecosystem we need to translate regenerative and cell-based therapies into longer, healthier lives for millions.”
“Scientific progress depends on defining the problem with precision,” says HSAC Scientific Advisory Board co-chair Dr. Jeanne Loring. “Cancer research advanced when we recognized it as many distinct diseases requiring targeted interventions. Aging is similarly heterogeneous, a constellation of biological changes, some adaptive and others pathological. As a member of HSAC’s Scientific Advisory Board, I see its cross‑sector coalition as uniquely positioned to translate this mechanistic understanding into coordinated, evidence‑based strategies that extend healthspan, rather than chasing a single, catch-all ‘cure’ for aging.”
Aubrey de Grey, founder of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, placed reaching the 300-member milestone in a broader context: “From a longevity science perspective, HSAC is catalytic: it is nurturing the political, economic and cultural conditions under which rejuvenation research can be funded adequately, regulated intelligently, and delivered equitably. That kind of systems-level work assures that the resulting gains in healthspan will reach the whole of humanity.”
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About Healthspan Action Coalition: HSAC is a nonprofit organization working on multiple policy-oriented and advocacy levels to extend the global human healthspan. It unites a broad spectrum of stakeholders in the search for, development of, and delivery of new medical treatments aimed at extending not just the lifespan, but the period of life spent in good health and free of disease or disability. While recognizing that virtually all human disorders entail an acceleration of the aging process, HSAC seeks to harness the latest developments in longevity research as a new avenue of disease treatment and prevention. Its mission is to create a worldwide, cross-sector, societal movement aimed at bringing together the disparate forces that have the ability to ensure that every person on the planet has the resources to live not only longer, but to remain healthy, vital and independent until the very end of life. It is led by a team of seasoned, experienced policy-oriented patient advocates and scientific pioneers with proven track records of effecting major changes in the aging, medical science, and healthcare fields. Website: https://healthspanaction.org
